The book took 10 weeks to write and reads quickly off the page.
- Eastern Daily Press,
The journalist turned accidental MP has an insight not available to reporters.
- Eastern Daily Press,
I am especially interested to read Martin's new book...And I am recommending that everyone buys his book.
- Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich and Clacton,
Adversity, Bell reminds us, can actually be quite useful.
- Tribune,
Bell doesn't mince his words condemning the 'corrupt' politicians who have 'lost our trust because they pick our pockets.'
- Sunday Herald,
His latest book is scathing about those who become MPs without having done much else in their lives other than politics. He judges - as I do - that much of the recent debacle would have been avoided, if so many of those who made it to Westminster had a career pattern other than school, university, researcher, aide to MP and adoption as Parliamentary candidate.
- Tribune,
Bell is right when he emphasizes that the real problem with the expenses scandal is not the money: it's the fact that MPs make up their own rules, and effectively end up writing their own cheques.
- London Review of Books,